85 years ago this month, Winston Churchill unpacked the result of the Dunkirk evactuation and reminded the UK that evacuations don’t win wars.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
And fighting the DFL to stalemates doesn’t save Minnesota – not all by itself.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
But let’s make sure we’re clear on what happened:<\/p>\n
The GOP – facing a DFL executive branch and a DFL controlled Senate with a one (possibly illegitimate, but whatever) vote minority – with only a tie in the House, managed to win a smaller budget<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n Not smaller than the one we had before the DFL’s spending spree in ’23-’24 – but that was never on the table with only a tie in one chamber.\u00a0 The GOP could not pass anything remotely partisan (even HOA reform had its hiccups) – tie votes lose, and anything the House MIGHT have passed would died in a DFL-controlled Senate committee.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n But it was still a huge cut in absolute dollars, and – this is important – the first cut of any kind in recent memory.\u00a0 \u00a0Enough for the “burn it all down” crowd?\u00a0 No, but nothing is.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Doing better will require winning more elections.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Can the MNGOP do it?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n I’m not sanguine about the state party – but they really only influence statewide elections (Governor, Senator, the Constitutional offices).\u00a0 The\u00a0 Legislative caucuses don’t depend on the state party, and the House and Senate Caucus Committees do a good job worthy of some hope.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n So suck it up. It ain’t over.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 85 years ago this month, Winston Churchill unpacked the result of the Dunkirk evactuation and reminded the UK that evacuations don’t win wars.\u00a0 \u00a0 And fighting the DFL to stalemates doesn’t save Minnesota – not all by itself.\u00a0\u00a0 But let’s make sure we’re clear on what happened: The GOP – facing a DFL executive branch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89703,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89702\/revisions\/89703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}